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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Gordon Fisher
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Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Gordon Fisher

Overview of this book

This book teaches you how to model a nautical scene, complete with boats and water, and then add materials, lighting, and animation. It demystifies the Blender interface and explains what each tool does so that you will be left with a thorough understanding of 3D. This book starts with an introduction to Blender and some background on the principles of animation, how they are applied to computer animation, and how these principles make animation better. Furthermore, the book helps you advance through various aspects of animation design such as modeling, lighting, camera work, and animation through the Blender interface with the help of several simple projects. Each project will help you practice what you have learned and do more advanced work in all areas.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blender 3D Basics Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Controlling the Lamp, the Camera, and Animating Objects
Index

Time for action – splitting the Blender windows


In addition to controlling the size of a window, you can create new windows. Unlike other systems, you are not limited to a set number of windows or a set layout.

  1. Look at any of the windows; you will see three diagonal lines in the lower-left and upper-right corners of the window, as shown in the following screenshot. These control the creation and deletion of the window.

  2. Put the cursor over the largest window and move it over the diagonal lines at the lower-left corner of that window.

  3. Then, hold down the LMB as you move the cursor horizontally toward the center of the window, and then release the LMB when you have moved the window edge to replace one third of the old window.

  4. Put the cursor over the center window that you just made. Move the cursor to the diagonal lines at the upper-right corner of that window. Then, hold down the LMB while you move the cursor horizontally toward the center of the window. Replace another one-third of the original...